{"id":3346,"date":"2013-03-22T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:47:30","slug":"a-new-play-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"A new play thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the girls have been feather pulling, I have been worried that they are bored. I have been giving them things to peck at, digging their run for worms and collecting the wood chip that gets scratched out onto the veg plot and heaping it back in the run for them to scratch through.<\/p>\n

We had also been looking out for a second hand pair of steps to give them some new perches but haven’t managed to find anything suitable. While at the garden centre today my husband saw some tree supports and decided to make the girls a ladder. We bought three which didn’t cost very much and was probably cheaper than steps would have been. My husband used two for the supports and cut the other one into three for the rungs. He then screwed it to the beam in the run so that it won’t move.<\/p>\n

As always with anything new the girl’s retreated to the top of the coop and refused to go into the garden area. I decided to entice them by sprinkling some dried meal worms under the ladder. This worked but I think it will be some time before they pluck up the courage to perch on the ladder. I will try to get some photos when that happens.<\/p>\n

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The girl’s are enticed under the ladder by some dried meal worms<\/p><\/div>\n

The anti-peck spray arrived through the post today. I will wait until near bedtime, when the girl’s are easiest to handle, before applying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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